The Making of the Ethernet Protocol Standard

Lucio Lanza Shares History About the Origins of the Ethernet Protocol Standard

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The Backbone of Data Analytics for the Semiconductor Ecosystem

Lanza techVentures invests in broad, forward-looking areas such as health and healthcare, pharma, computers, community-based, open-source silicon platforms, design tools and the intersection of AI and medical

Early Stage Venture Capital and Investment

Early Stage Venture Capital and Investment

Lasting partnerships that move new and innovative ideas into the market

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PDF Solutions, the Backbone of Data Analytics for the Semiconductor Ecosystem

The human brain’s efficiency is massively more than that of today’s computers. The semiconductor ecosystem is forecasted to reach $1 trillion in revenue by 2030, which means more software, more analytics and new products that need to be…

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Bloomlife: Ensuring Every Family Gets a Healthy Start

Bloomlife is a Lanza techVentures portfolio company with a business proposition unlike any of the more traditional companies in the portfolio. Instead of products so far down the semiconductor supply chain that they are hard to explain to consumers,…

Savviest, the Savvy Job Seekers’ Tool, Turns to Lucio Lanza for Go-to-Market Strategy Advice

Savviest, the Savvy Job Seekers’ Tool, Turns to Lucio Lanza for Go-to-Market Strategy Advice

Editor’s note: Lucio Lanza, Managing Partner at Lanza techVentures, is noted for his savvy, visionary investments. What may not be as well-known or recognized is his willingness to mentor entrepreneurs. A recent example is the help he provided…

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Looking back, the impact of the Internet on society is similar to the agricultural society moving into the industrial age. When you consider the impact of 300-milion individuals connected in the U.S. to two-billion others around the world, you see its strong impact on society.

Lucio LanzaManaging Director, Lanza techVentures

The traditional chip design process won’t work moving forward. Instead, it will be based on silicon IP that can be used with minimal cost because a chip today should be able to be designed quickly, cheaply and boldly by anyone with a natural ability.

Lucio LanzaManaging Director, Lanza techVentures

Open source for a creative environment and strategic advantage is the way to go because it offers the largest set of low-cost implementation tools. New communities of designers, in fact, are working on new generations of design using this approach.

Lucio LanzaManaging Director, Lanza techVentures

Automated design learning with a growing brain and memory is improving constantly and is the next step of the industrial revolution. Automated AI is five to 20 years away and will impact society with infinite compute power. Medical information, for example, will be reevaluated and the next chip to design itself will do so automatically. It will know which processes are available and be able to deliver a prototype as it keeps learning.

Lucio LanzaManaging Director, Lanza techVentures

In the past, semiconductors were designed all the way through manufacturing. It was heavy-duty deep silicon. Next came semi-custom design and then silicon IP. What’s next? What will it take to get an AI chip into full production? On the other side of the equalization, how will verification experts respond to the explosion of silicon-on-package designs that may be low end today but could develop into broadly used deep-silicon designs?

Lucio LanzaManaging Director, Lanza techVentures

IoT and chiplets are the next semi-custom design. Libraries of IP are the best way to create chiplets for lower cost with more designs in less time.

Lucio LanzaManaging Director, Lanza techVentures

What other people see as a mishmash, I see as the center of the bull’s eye. A chip today should be able to be designed by anybody quickly, cheaply and boldly.

Lucio LanzaManaging Director, Lanza techVentures

From the Archives

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How Lucio Went from Italy to EDA via Intel

How Lucio got from Italy to be one of the few venture capitalists that still invests in EDA and the semiconductor ecosystem

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Oral History of Lucio Lanza, Part 1, Computer History Museum

Insights from part 1 of a 2-part interview for the Computer History Museum’s Oral History Collection

Lucio Lanza CHM interview part 2

Oral History of Lucio Lanza, Part 2, Computer History Museum

CHM’s Oral History Collection interview with Lucio continues with more fascinating info

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Executive Insight: Lucio Lanza

A candid interview about EDA, semiconductors, the Internet of Things and big changes ahead